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HP Visualize B1000 Supplementary Manual

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VISUALIZE Workstation Memory Subsystem
By Kirsten Olsen
HP Workstation System Lab

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  • Page 1 VISUALIZE Workstation Memory Subsystem By Kirsten Olsen HP Workstation System Lab...
  • Page 2: Key Design Features

    The HP VISUALIZE UNIX® Workstation systems have an idle system memory latency roughly 40% better than that of the HP PA-8200 products, as well as a memory bandwidth two times that of the HP PA-8200 products. The peak memory bandhwidth of the PA-8200 products was 960MB/s;...
  • Page 3 DIMM loaded in the system, in contrast to the HP PA-8200 memory subsystem that requires a minimum of 2 DIMMs loaded in the system. This allows the HP VISUALIZE UNIX® Workstation systems to reach maximum memory bandwidth with just 1 DIMM in the system, allowing customers to buy a minimum of memory and still achieve maximum memory bandwidth.
  • Page 4 HP VISUALIZE UNIX® Workstation systems will reorder the reads to allow the read to the open page to execute first, or to be issued “out of order.” The HP PA-8200 systems did not use out of order read returns. As explained in the open page discussion above, this improves the busy system memory latency of the HP VISUALIZE UNIX®...
  • Page 5 Application Performance Data Below you will find performance charts comparing HP VISUALIZE UNIX® Workstation systems to HP PA-8200 systems and to Sun’ s Ultrasparc60 systems. Performance gains in both EDA and MDA applications are shown. In the EDA applications, Verilog and QuickHDL are two memory intensive applications.
  • Page 6 C3000 Performance (Larger numbers are better) EDA Applications 2.50x Sun U60/360 C360 C3000 2.00x 1.50x 1.00x 0.50x 0.00x Verilog 08/23/99 Design Cyclone QuickHDL Compiler HP VISUALIZE WORKSTATIONS Calibre EDA Composite...
  • Page 7 Pro/E Composite The 2X performance of this new HP VISUALIZE memory subsystem The greater than 2X performance of the new HP VISUALIZE I/O system The 2X performance of the 440MHz PA-8500 relative to the 236MHz PA-8200 CPU HP VISUALIZE WORKSTATIONS...